Gottlieb: FDA, USDA Bid To Cut Duplication Will Work This Time Due To Better Ties

By David Roza / June 6, 2018 at 6:30 PM
After FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week they will harmonize their audits of produce facilities, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told Inside Health Polic y the two agencies will succeed this time around, when they failed previously, in their broader effort to eliminate inefficiencies stemming from dual-regulation of food facilities. The agencies' current close-knit, multi-level collaboration, and FDA's increased role in agriculture under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), will allow the current collaboration to succeed where...


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